On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 6:21 AM, Mark Brown<broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote:> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 09:58:56PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:>> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 04:01:57PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote:>>> > The other major out-of-tree patches we usually integrate are>> > 1) Android>>> I would love to get some feedback/contacts with the Android teams to>> talk about this with them. If anyone knows anyone I should talk to>> here, please let me know.>> Brian Swetland and Arve Hjønnevåg should be able to point you at the> right people if they aren't themselves the right people.>> [Sorry if my software has mangled your name Arve]

(something ate the final 'g' (fixed above) but otherwise his nameseems to have survived)

As far as long-term kernels goes, from the Android perspective westrongly prefer to snap up to the most recent released kernel on everyplatform/device release. I prefer to be as up to date on bugfixes andfeatures from mainline as possible and minimize the deltas on ourstack 'o patches as much as possible.

We've been getting more aggressive about merging in the -rc#s and thenrebasing on the final during development (before final stabilizationfreeze for a release) in the last year or so, and it seems to workpretty well.

Not all OEMs or silicon vendors are as comfortable with this approachand I expect some would welcome a long term tree they can count on toget critical fixes for, though. Device release teams (even our own,for lead devices we work on) are notoriously risk-averse (often forgood reasons), and tend to get really nervous when they see the totalchange count or diff stat for pulling up to a new kernel release closeto "final rom" for a product.

Brian

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